This ain't your father's Battleship! Check that: this isn't even your Battleship. The first trailer for the Universal production of Battleship has debuted online, and it promises a whole lot of ridiculous and nonsensical Michael Bay-y action. No fooling: Battleship looks like an amalgam of Armageddon, Pearl Harbor and the last hour of Transformers: Dark of the Moon. Thrust in the middle of this insanity is Friday Night Lights star Taylor Kitsch, and while he was somewhat muted in the cool trailer for John Carter, he gets to run the full gamut of over-the-top emotions in Battleship. Check out his seven best faces from the trailer ahead.
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It's one thing to read through the slow drip of casting notices about an omnibus Hollywood romantic comedy and think, "Well, this cast is getting gigantic." It's quite another to see it in action. So! Say hello to the trailer for New Year's Eve, the non-sequel to Valentine's Day that features no less than 20 famous people named in the onscreen credits. Was that Halle Berry?
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Movieline's Louis Virtel returns to the YouTube frontier this week with his second installment of Verbal Vogueing, the Web series that combines close cultural reads with all the hashtag hilarity one can reasonably stand. In this episode, join Louis on an expedition through the dizzying effluvia of Glee, Jersey Shore, and a must-watch lightning round of #OscarWinningDragQueens. It is what it sounds like -- which is to say, ready for your own submissions in the comments and very, very NSFW.
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It's Tuesday fun time (or, as we prefer to call it in this brainfried, sweltering midsummer, Tuesday): A clever Dutch designer has offered up a time-killing slice of movie-wonk ecstasy with his video, "A History of the Title Sequence." In it, Jurjen Versteeg offers call-outs to eight celebrated title designers and their most famous work, the sum total of which provides the arc of title design for the last century-plus. But can you identify the films that each citation invokes? Read on to give it a shot.
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Because the first person you think of when you think of Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder is David Lynch, the new trailer for Pearl Jam Twenty starts with the famed director (and part-time musician) asking EV when "music started being a thing" for him. Cue up a dissolve into 20-year-old Pearl Jam home movies, folks, because Eddie is having himself a pretty rocking flashback!
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Ever wonder why some actors appear comically oversized next to their castmates on movie posters? It could have something to do with each actors' popularity, billing or -- as evidenced by a new Funny or Die video featuring Steve Carell -- strict contractual demands. Watch the former Office star fight for prime positioning on the Crazy Stupid Love poster ("Would you rather see Ryan Gosling's face or mine?") based on an argument that involves pancakes, Seth Rogen and hilarious never-before-seen artwork for Carell's first feature, Curly Sue.
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A funny thing about the financial crisis that started in 2008 and continues to affect both Main Street and Wall Street to this day: it doesn't really translate that well to film. Well, feature films, anyway. The documentaries are great -- see Inside Job, for reference -- but from Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps to the HBO film Too Big to Fail, the biggest news story of the last three years seems all too small and boring when high-priced stars are acting out its machinations onscreen. Into that arena comes Margin Call; can the star-studded fiscal drama succeed where others failed?
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In today's installment of Cowboys and Aliens and Strange Web Featurettes, Chinese-American filmmaker and visual effects guru Freddie Wong draws his pistols in the robotized Old West with Jon Favreau. Make sense to you? No? Watch, gawp, and smear yourself with chocolate sauce blood.
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You can finally call Comic-Con over, because the funniest trailer to emerge from the cosplayer cotillion is here: Knights of Badassdom casts Steve Zahn, True Blood star Ryan Kwanten, Peter Dinklage, Patrick Stewart, and our man Danny Pudi as Dungeons and Dragons aficionados who "accidentally open up an otherworldly portal and unleash a real-life demon onto the playing field." Watch the very funny (and cute!) trailer after the jump.
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Robert Pattinson dons dandy tails, a dandy hat, dandy mannerisms, and dandy unintentional hilarity in the new trailer for Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod's adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's Bel Ami. Yay. He also quivers like Daniel Plainview in one shot, and before he can yell, "I've abandoned my child!" like a sessy vampire, you'll have visions of Dangerous Liaisons as you watch Uma Thurman wear period costuming.
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Another day, another outstanding trailer for an upcoming movie that you probably didn't think would get a push from Comic-Con. Hot on the heels of that breathtaking clip for Drive comes the balls-out trailer for Steven Soderbergh's Haywire, the previously thought-to-be second of Soderbergh's final five films. Good thing ol' Mr. Soderbergh isn't actually retiring!
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The heat wave bearing down on the United States has turned much of the eastern half of the country into a hellish furnace of death, despair and crisis. Today in New York the forecast calls for a high of 99, with the humidity pushing the heat index into triple digits with the likes of Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and scores of other towns along the Eastern Seaboard. But at least we're all in this together -- and with the movies, which are rich with tales of city folks sweating out the worst seasonal crap summer has to offer. Read on and recount nine of the best.
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Move over, ubiquitous comedy presence Jason Bateman! When A Good Old Fashioned Orgy is released over Labor Day weekend in September it will be the third Jason Sudeikis film to hit theaters since February (Hall Pass and Horrible Bosses if you've got short term memory loss) against only two for Bateman (Bosses and The Change-Up). Try harder, Bates! Is the scandalously titled late-summer sex comedy the best of Sudeikis' comedy threesome?
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The proprietors at the Alamo Drafthouse -- a theater where texting/talking during a screening is considered grounds for decapitation -- asked Jesse Eisenberg how he feels about loud patrons at the cineplex. You'd think Eisenberg would roll with the idea and complain about such whippersnappers, but instead he rebelled and claimed that talking during movies helps build community. Oh, Jesse. Your weird social skills are the ultimate cinematic treat.
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How did Catfish directors Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost decide to follow-up their controversial true-life ("true-life") documentary? By making a "found footage" horror movie, of course! (The moral: stick with what you know.) The pair return to theaters this November with Paranormal Activity 3, a prequel to the stories told in the first two films, but one that looks no less terrifying. (The moral: stick with what you know.) Click through to be jump-scared out of your office chair.
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